Category Archives: Islam

When a “Cease-Fire” is Not a Cease-Fire

FRONTPAGE MAG by David Bedein July 17, 2014 In the current conflagration between Israel and Gaza, news agencies mistakenly report that a “cease fire” is being discussed with Hamas. In the imagination of the media, such a “cease fire” might … Continue reading

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Winning the Moral High Ground is a Loser’s Game

SULTAN KNISH BLOG by Daniel Greenfield July 16, 2014 In our modern age, things no longer exist to perform their function. Washing machines aren’t designed to clean clothes, but to save water and energy. Food isn’t there to be eaten, … Continue reading

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Hamas Wants to Die

MIDDLE EAST FORUM by David P. Goldman July 15, 2014 It’s like the old joke: Why do Jewish men die before their wives? Because they want to. Civilizations for the most part die because they no longer want to live. … Continue reading

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Don’t Put Terrorists on Trial. Treating terrorist attacks as criminal incidents is a futile approach.

NATIONAL REVIEW by Daniel Pipes July 14, 2014 The Obama administration has brought an accused Libyan terrorist named Ahmed Abu Khattala to Washington for trial. His saga reveals how the government views the Islamist threat, and it’s discouraging. Fortunately, a … Continue reading

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Hamas, the dying shark, has no sponsor and is losing popular support; Israel should finish it off.

GLOBES by Dr Norman Bailey July 14, 2014 The current battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza resembles nothing so much as the violent thrashing-about of a mortally wounded shark leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Nothing remains … Continue reading

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Last week’s San Francisco anti-Israel protest. Brownshirt thugs transported to 2014. [VIDEO]

San Francisco anti-Israel protest held July 7, 2014 300 anti-Israel protesters surround and threaten 30 peaceful, pro-Israel demonstrators in San Francisco. They call for another intifada, and the destruction of the Jewish State.

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Jews trapped in Paris synagogue during pro-Palestinian protest, anti-Israel rallies worldwide.

ISRAEL HAYOM by Eli Leon, Nitzi Yakov, Yoni Hirsch, The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff July 14, 2014 Worshippers injured as protesters try to force way into synagogue • In Los Angeles, officer fires shot to defuse tensions at … Continue reading

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The Gaza Rules. Israel, unlike Hamas, isn’t trying to kill civilians. It’s taking pains to spare them.

SLATE by William Saletan July 9, 2014 According to many critics, Israel is slaughtering civilians in Gaza. It’s “purposefully wiping out entire families,” says an Arab member of Israel’s parliament. It’s committing “genocide—the murder of entire families,” says Mahmoud Abbas, … Continue reading

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Why a ground incursion is needed

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Benjamin Anthony July 13, 2014 It was in this very month, in 2006, that I served as a heavy gunner in the Second Lebanon war. It was a difficult war. Troops went hungry and dehydrated. The … Continue reading

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This time, let Israel finish job

DETROIT NEWS by Nolan Finley July 13, 2014 The play-by-play for Israeli-Palestinian eruptions is so well-worn that it’s become formulaic. Hamas terrorists in Gaza find an excuse to escalate their daily rocket attacks against settlements and towns in Israel, forcing … Continue reading

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